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 The Folding Text Editor

 Author:    Marko Macek
 Homepage:  http://fte.sourceforge.net/
 Family:    FoldingEditors OS/2EditorFamily MsDosEditors LinuxEditorFamily
 Platforms: OS/2, Win32 console, DOS, Linux console and an X port for many UNIX'es 
 License:   Open source

The home page does not link to files for the latest version. Recent source code, and Windows and Linux compilations, are available at http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=943&package_id=941

A recent DOS version is at http://www.student.unimelb.edu.au/denisa/fte.htm

Syntax highlighting and syntax-aware autoindent for many languages / file formats, including C(++), Java, Perl, Sh, Pascal, SQL, Assembly, PHP, Python, REXX, Ada, Fortran, IDL, LinuxDoc?, TeX, TeXInfo?, HTML, diffs, emails and makefiles
User-definable syntax highlighting using a configurable state machine
Parenthesis matching
Parsing of compiler output (jump to file/line of error, jump to prev/next error)
Parsing of "grep" output (jump to file/line of match)
Simple handling of several open files / directory views
Several variations of the "copy'n'paste" mechanism (including "Copy-Append", "Paste column", "Paste line"
Many Line transformation operations (split, join, center, toupper, tolower, togglecase, rot13, delete-to-end, ...)
An ASCII table ("insert this funny char")
Many block selection operations (mark stream/rectangle/line(s), insert stream/rectangle/line(s) from file, write selection to file, print selection)
Operations on selections (toupper, tolower, rot13, user defined translates, indent entire block, sort, ...)
Several navigation operations (search string, bookmark stack, goto line, goto matching parenthesis, go to next/prev similar word, ...)
Search and replace optionally using regular expressions
Folds, including "create by regexp", "create by routines", nested folds
Interfacing to compiler/make, grep, shell, ispell
Routine/Function? list for several languages

Editor with syntax higlighting, auto-indent, code folding, support for 20+ languages / file formats, directory browsing, function list. Configuration is flexible but weird to use (must edit config files and "compile" them to a binary config file). Some configuration options are accessible via menus.

The interface is Text Oriented though it can be run in a GUI environment (like GUI VIM without toolbars, split windows and with text menus)

note: the concept of compiling into config files was once popular, especially in low memory environments. TSEPro? did this in the past as well. I think that VDE might have also. Confirmation?

(VDE uses a config program that patches the VDE executable. It *does* have a macro compiler. --DMcCunney)

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